Application link: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/169611 (applications not accepted via email)

The Sound Engineer operates sound reproduction, recording, and related equipment in the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Optimal artistic effect and nuance are paramount, and the sound engineer has significant overall responsibility for the audience and artist experience in a high-end performing arts center that presents 150+ live events per year in genres ranging from jazz and folk (with a strongly global component) to classical, new music, talk/lecture, chorale, theatre, and others. While live-audio configuration and concert sound mixing are central to the role and represent the highest-level artistic qualification, the Sound Engineer also configures, accomplishes, and/or manages recording, AV setups for events outside of the concert venue, and, on occasion, sonic or audio components of art installations. The Sound Engineer works closely with artists, thinks obsessively about the audience audio experience, expands their skillsets as technologies improve and evolve, and collaborates on a daily basis with production and other staff in PRAx. The position requires a high degree of artistry and musical training/musicality alongside technical skills and expertise, as well as the skills not just to iterate the same tasks day after day but to customize approaches across venues, genres, and the varying artistic goals of each performance.

This is a 10-month position that correlates with the PRAx annual season, September-June.